1945-09-27 City of Beverly, Massachusetts
Public Meeting Minutes
Board: Library Trustees
Subcommittee:
Date: 09/27/1945
Place: Beverly Public Library
Board members present: Thomas F. Delaney, John C. Birmingham, Lawrence E. Foster,
William A. Rowe, and Robert O. Small
Board members absent: W. Lincoln Boyden, Jr., Thomas J. Casey, Louisa L. Vaughan and B.
Frederick Yoffa
Others present:
Recorder: Marjorie H. Stanton
Beverly, September 27, 1945
The regular meeting of the Board of Trustees was held at the Library on Thursday, September
27, at 7:30 P.M., with Messrs. Delaney, Birmingham, Foster, Rowe, and Small in attendance.
The records of the meeting of June 28 were read and approved, as was the report of the
meeting of the Administration Committee held on September 10, to open bids for repairs to the
marble platform of the front steps at the main Libraxy.
The report of the Finance Committee giving expenditures and balances for the first nine moths
of the year was red and approved.
Mr. Delaney reported fore the Administration Committee that work on the marble steps
would bee started in the very near future. He also reported that plastering was beginning to crack and
fall in several placed on the lower floor of the Main Library and that though no money was available
at present to make extensive repairs, it might be wise for the Trustees to be considering some more
permanent sort of repairs, in the future, than "mere patching."
Miss Stanton, in her report of the summer and fall activities, stressed the need of more
adequate reference facilities for both Junior and Senior high school students, and a committee
consisting of Mr. Birmingham, chairman, Mr. Foster and Mr. Small was appointed to work out some
solution of this problem: - either by taking the present Document Room as an Intermediate
Department for junior high students or by closing the present Children's Room at 6 P.M., during the
school term, to all boys and girls below the eight grade, and using it during the ensuing hours as a
Reference Room for pupils of both Junior and Senior High.
The Circulation Committee reported that since the June meeting 670 books had been
purchased and 39 books received as gifts. Voted: that this be approved.
The Circulation Committee also presented for discussion the magazine list for 1946. It was
voted to approve the list as read~ and since it would not be necessary, legally, to advertise for
estimates on this, it was voted to p-place the list with Miss June Picketing of Beverly who has given
very satisfactory service during the last two years.
Miss Stanton, who had been asked to look into the matter of library salaries in places of
approximately the same size as Beverly, reported that after consulting with Miss E Louise Jones of
the State Library Commission, and pay-plans often libraries near Boston, she had found the following
standard to be in force:-
Librarian A certificate Salary $2500 - 3000
Ass't Librarian A or B certificate 1600 - 2000
Heads of Depts. including A or B certificate 1400 - 1800
Branch
Junior Assts B, C, or D 1200 - 1600
Clerical C, D, or no certificate 1000 - 1200
The Trustees voted that as soon as money is available, this standard of minimum and
maximum salaries be put into force for regular members of this Library Staff.
An application was received from Mrs. Lois Ross Markey for a 'position on the Staff, Mrs.
Markey is a Beverly resident, a graduate of Simmons College and has done both Children' s and Adult
work in the libraries in New, York, Califomia, Reading and Lynn. It was voted to engage Mrs.
Markey to being work on November 1, at a salary of $1700, provided Mayor McLean would again
appropriate this amount for 1946 - the vacancy existing carrying a salary of only $800 a year. Mr.
Birmingham was requested to get this confirmation from the Mayor.
It was further voted to raise the salary of Miss Marion Allen. The Assistant Librarian, from
$1500 to $1800, at the earliest opportunity.
The Secretary was instructed to write Miss Jane Bogan of Beverly Farms that the vacancy on
the Staff was being filled by a graduate of Simmons College.
Adjoumed
Marjorie H. Stanton
Secretary